Tagged With "Panasonic"

I mentioned in the previous blog that we had our Kickoff Sales meeting for 2020 yesterday. Rather than drive the three hours home I opted to stay over night and leave first thing in the AM. 2019 was a very good year, I was back in President's Club for the 7th time, got me a $50 gift card for winning a contest at our branch. Maybe an old timer like me can win the Grand Prize next week, we'll see we have some talented peeps and all will be out for the glory. It's time to bring out the old dog...

Operation Red Wings , a counterterrorism mission in Kunar province , Afghanistan , involving four U.S. Navy SEAL members, took place. Three of the SEALs were killed during the operation, whilst a fourth was protected by local villagers and was...

I'll be you're wondering why the funky spaceman suit right? Back in October of 2003, China launched their first manned space mission the Shenzhou 5. Seems every week I forget to put in the additional search criteria for all of the manufacturers...

Yup, ten years ago today Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was sworn is as Governor of California.  I'll take a line from a Mel Brooks movie and Arnie might have said "It's good to be the King"!!! There are 28 selling days left in the year, if...

Geesh, can you believe color systems have been around for ten plus years now!  From reading one of the threads, yes I remember having to sell color develops not color pages.  Mention develops to a new rep and they'll look at you like you've...

When reviewing these threads I noticed a thread that I posted 10 years ago that referenced the loss of my brother.  Ten years....just want to thank all of the P4P'ers that expressed their condolences. It was and still is appreciated. I did...

Ten Years ago this week.............After 26 years, and at a distance from Earth of over 8 billion miles, Voyager 1 exits the solar system. It is expected to keep on transmitting into the 2020s . [47] [48]   Enjoy these threads from the Print4Pay Hotel forums 10 year ago!   I Get To Change Jobs! November 8, 2003 1:27 PM Topic by Graham Well all, it looks like I will be making a Job Change on December 1st. My company has been sold to our chief competitor.I will be still selling...

For years and years I wanted nothing to do with selling desktop and workgroup scanners. I learned the hardware many years ago that selling desktop and workgroup scanners an exercise in wasting my fraking time. Years ago when I first saw those desktop scanners from Fujitsu I thought they would sell like hotcakes. I thought, I could sell these to everyone that had a desk and processed paper. I had the talk track down, I was able to get the decision makers to buy in, however when it came down...

Five Reasons Why Dealers Should Lead with Panasonic Scanners Today had me with a working lunch and I wanted to connect with Brian Szoke (Partner Sales Manager for Document Imaging with Panasonic) to educate us more about Panasonic and their document scanners. It's my belief that we all need to educate ourselves (including me) with different products and solutions that can create additional opportunities for us in the field. Below is our short chat. Art: Hey Brian hope you and family had a...

Just a little background on this email. Deon (South Africa Dealer) sent me the article from RTM where the original headline was “ Ricoh Says it Will Quit Paper and Shareholders Go Crazy .”. I'm guessing there was some pressure from Ricoh because within 48 hours the headline was changed to Ricoh Transitions From Paper and Shareholders Get Excited. Deon emailed me this thoughts and I thought the time is right to have a discussion based as to where our industry in going. We would love to hear...

I agree consolidation is a must. One of the recent posts had Ricoh partnering with other A3 manufacturers? Don't know how true that is. We may see some surprises this April which is the start of the new year for all of the Japanese manufacturers. COVID still hanging around here in the East. After the Presidents speech tonight he wasn't giving much hope for an early end to this. We can only hope and pray. Thanks for the comment!

Consolidation has to occur. There is no way there can be this many competitors selling essentially the same device. Machine hardware has hit a plateau, there isn't really much to advance other than adopting a completely different technology. So they add apps and connectivity which is great but eventually those platforms will also consolidate and there wont be a need for all of this diversification to print a piece of paper.